Krushchev downfall

• Cuban missile crisis

  • placed Soviet missiles in Cuba
  • america place naval block
  • Brink of nuclear war and h backed down
  • Krushchevs idea alone
  • America removed nukes from turkey but it was a secret
• agricultural failures

  • virgin lands campaigns an overdrive of maize land - only 107 million tonnes vs boasted 170 million by krushchev
  • brought grain from West with reserves
  • humiliating as field of expertise
  • accused of gross mistakes
• reorganisations

  • replaced more than 2/3 of members of council and presidium
  • limited elected to office to 3
  • divided parallel heriarchies responsible for agriculture and industry - reduce party secretary powers provincially - impacted central committee members who resented limits
  • his main power base destroyed